{"id":1215,"date":"2018-06-09T23:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T23:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2021-12-30T07:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T07:27:59","slug":"reasons-japanese-is-not-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/reasons-japanese-is-not-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Why Japanese is Not Difficult to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Japanese has a reputation for being hard to learn. It\u2019s true that learning the writing system is challenging, but it\u2019s just one of the many aspects of Japanese.\u00a0Actually, Japanese is surprisingly simple and it can be much easier than other languages.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 reasons why Japanese is easy to learn.<\/p>\n

1. Simple pronunciation<\/h3>\n

Japanese has 45 basic syllables. Does it sound a lot compare to 26 letters in English? That fact is that while one letter can be pronounced in a variety of ways in English, each Japanese syllable can be pronounced only one way. Therefore, once you learn the alphabet, you\u2019ll be able to pronounce Hiragana and Katakana words correctly wherever you see it.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Japanese is not a tonal language. Unlike Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., you do not need to learn a specific tone for each and every syllable.<\/p>\n

2. Nouns doesn\u2019t change the form.<\/h3>\n

There is no concept of noun genders in Japanese. If you study Romance languages like Spanish, French, you need to always think whether the noun is \u201cmasculine\u201d, \u201cfeminine\u201d or \u201cneuter\u201d, but it is not the case for Japanese.<\/p>\n

Besides, singular and plural nouns are the same form in Japanese. So basically nouns doesn\u2019t change the form in any cases.<\/p>\n

3. No conjugations<\/h3>\n

One of the hardest part to learn Romance languages is to memorise tons of conjugations. However, to learn Japanese verbs, you don\u2019t need to memorize nor think these complicated conjugations.<\/p>\n

4. Plenty of English loanwords<\/h3>\n

Do you think that you need to memorize all Japanese vocabulary newly as Japanese is totally different language from English? In fact, there are lots of English loanwords in Japanese. Although Japanese people pronounce them in different way, it\u2019s much easier to pick up these vocabulary than totally unknown vocabulary.<\/p>\n

Moreover, when you don\u2019t the how to say in Japanese, try to say in English! Sometimes it works!<\/p>\n

5. You can leave out subjects & objects<\/h3>\n

Japanese is a quite logical language. When the subject or object is clear, you can just leave them out. For example, if someone ask you \u201cDid you watch this movie?\u201d, you can simply answer \u201cWatched.\u201d as the subject (I) and object (the movie) are obvious. You don\u2019t even need to replace the object to pronoun.<\/p>\n

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Now, do you think learning Japanese is much easier than you think? Of course, learning any language has difficulty and memorizing Kanji is not that easy. However,\u00a0 <\/span>it\u2019s good to keep in mind that Japanese language itself is not that difficult to learn.<\/p>\n

Lastly, try our app LingoCards<\/a> to make your learning easier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese has a reputation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[428,31],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easy-language-learning-tips-technique","category-japanese","tag-beginner","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}